Germany: Prisoners, including: Interned medical personnel, including: Lieutenant...

FO 383/149

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Interned medical personnel, including:

• Lieutenant Robert V Gracey, wounded prisoner.
• Repatriation of incapacitated British prisoners from Hook of Holland to Tilbury on 7 October 1916. Ernest G B Maxse, British Consul-General in Rotterdam, comments on the good state of the men and the fine work of the Dutch Red Cross.
• Incapacitated members of the crew of the ship Emden. Australia asks that Germany bears the cost of their repatriation.
• Captain Philip Vivian Rose, severely wounded prisoner: letter on his behalf from his father, Sir Philip F Rose, Bart. Captain Rose's name to be recommended to Swiss Medical Commission. His wife's friends seek to ask the King of Spain to intervene for his repatriation.
• Lieutenant August Boyes, incapacitated German officer: repatriated on 7 October 1916.
• Return of incapacitated prisoners from Canada.
• Exchange of incapacitated prisoners: German list of 6 exchanged British prisoners, 4 British prisoners transferred to Switzerland, and 2 dead British prisoners (in docket no.239670).
• Repatriation of incapacitated German prisoners (c85, including 16 'cot cases') on British hospital ship St Denis sailing from Tilbury, Essex, to Hook of Holland, Netherlands, on 8 December 1916. Also c120 invalid German civilians.
• Repatriation of incapacitated British prisoners (91, including 2 'cot cases', both officers, 20 severe mental cases and 7 less serious mental cases) on British hospital ship St Denis sailing from Hook of Holland, Netherlands, to Tilbury, Essex, on 8 December 1916.
• Repatriation of Doctors Glantz and Zieschank: reimbursement of expenses of British Vice-Consul at Newport News, Virginia, United States.

Hugo Baumbach: sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for insubordination and use of foul language in English to a non-commissioned officer of the guard. Correspondence restricted but not prohibited.

Lance-Sergeant A W Felton, East Surrey Regiment: his will found on dead body of German soldier.

Interned merchant seamen, including:

• German merchant seamen interned in Newfoundland transferred to Canada.
• List of 85 British seamen who left Ruhleben Camp, Germany, on 21 December 1915 for repatriation to England (in docket no.626).
• Edward Stuart Dagnall, interned at Ruhleben: his father Henry Dagnall asks why Albert Norman Taylor has been released, but not his son. Agreement applies for exchange of merchant seamen (not ships' officers) under 17 or over 55 on 4 December 1915. Taylor under 17, Dagnall over 17.
• Agreement for exchange of British and German merchant seamen to apply to men interned in Colonies and Protectorates. Numbers of beneficiaries: 2 in New Zealand; 27 in Australia; 6 in South Africa; 7 in Canada.
• Exchange of British and German ships' boys.
• Captain Robert Evans, interned in Ruhleben: repatriation not possible because ships' officers excluded from Agreement.
• Army Council Instruction No 192 of January 1916: Prisoners of War - Repatriation of Merchant Seamen.
• List of merchant seamen and fishermen prisoners at Ruhleben under the age of 17 (29 names, in docket no.16584).
• Captain Charles Browne, interned in Ruhleben: his wife requests his release as he is aged 64.
• List of 21 interned British ships' boys, drawn up by Registrar General of Seamen (in docket no.20725).
• Captain W Spillmann, interned at Malta: requests repatriation to Germany for cancer operation. British Government presses German Government to agree to exchange of invalid merchant seamen. Spillman expected to be released when Captain Prime released on 6 September 1916 on grounds of humanity.
• Captain Andrew Colvin, interned at Ruhleben: his employer, the Gordon Steam Shipping Co Ltd, appeals for his exchange; Foreign Office reply that individual exchanges cannot be arranged.
• Only 15 British boys to benefit under Agreement.
• Amalgamated Society of Engineers seeks repatriation of its members interned at Ruhleben.
• Marine Engineers' Association Ltd forwards petition from 160 British engineers interned at Ruhleben, seeking individual exchanges with Germans. List gives name of ship, name of person, rank and age (in docket no.26421).
• E R Newbigin, shipbroker and coal exporter of Newcastle upon Tyne, appeals for repatriation of A Cordiner, aged 60, Master of steamship Heworth of Newcastle. 7 other men of ship, aged over 55, released, including 2nd officer, who did not have certificate and was registered by Germans as ordinary seaman; Admiralty wish to interview him.
• Captains George Tyndall, aged 60, and G J Kirwan and Brown, both over 70, interned at Ruhleben; appeal for their repatriation.
• Christian Meyer, aged over 55, taken from German cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse and interned at Amherst Camp, Canada: not entitled to repatriation because a ship's officer.
• Loss of gear, clothing and effects of British fishermen interned at Ruhleben: their Union is advised that claims should be registered with the Foreign Claims Office at the Foreign Office.
• James Kavanagh, British seaman, engineman on the trawler Seti and interned at Ruhleben: aged 57 so should be released.
• Views on the Agreement: Home Office believes Britain got the worst of the deal because many fit German boys were repatriated and joined the forces; there were fewer British boys; Foreign Office believes no British boys eligible for repatriation were still interned in Germany, and that German boys must be repatriated.
• German Government's list of 41 boys who should have been repatriated but were alleged to be still in England on 19 April 1916 (in docket no.130711). Of the 41 boys, 10 were in Malta and 31 in Britain. 2 from Malta already repatriated. Home Office proposes to repatriate 13 boys, 6 from Malta, 7 from Britain (named, in docket no.139382). The other 26 to be repatriated subject to proof of age and no naval objections.
• 4 German boys repatriated from Amherst Camp, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Parole given by crews of British merchant vessels.
• List of 39 inmates of 'Boys' Barracks', Ruhleben, with dates of birth (in docket no.156725).
• E August Kuhl, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: as he is a ship's officer he cannot be repatriated.
• Johannes Just, interned at Amherst Camp, Canada: to be repatriated as he was under 17 when taken prisoner.
• List of 35 seamen aged under 17 and over 55 interned in New South Wales, Australia (in docket no.193855).
• R Leibtka, German subject, repatriated from India on steamship Golconda.

Code 1218 Files 183 (papers 202248-end)-336.

Files 183 (pp.202248-end)-336.

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